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SPRING BED BOTTOM. No. 349,478. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CARLETON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, assreuon or ONE HALF TO n. M.HULSE, or SAME PLACE.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,478, datedSeptember 21, 1886 Application filed July 3,1886. Serial No. 207,024.(No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern: A A reprsent the side rails, B the doubleBe it known that 1, CHARLES GARLE'roN, a end rails, and O the coiledwoven-wire matcitizen of the United States, and a resident of tress,which compose what is known as the Chicago, county of Cook, and State ofIllinois, suspended wire-mattress bed-bottom. To 5 have invented new anduseful Improvements any of these mattresses I can apply my re-eninSpring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following forcing devices by means ofsustaining-wires is a specification, reference being had to the (Z (Z,which are put transversely through the accompanying drawings,illustrating the inmattress parallel with and some little distancevention, in which from the end rails, B, as shown, and in susto Figure Iis a vertical longitudinal sectional pending-wires I,as many as may berequired,

elevation of a spring bed-bottom embodying hooked onto thetransversewires and made to 6 my invention, the coil-springs beingrepresupport the lower ends of hour-glass springs sented as supporteddirectly on suspendinga a a by a direct connection therewith by wires.Fig. II is the same view as Fig. I, exmeans of links or staples, orsupport conical I 5 cept conical springs are shown as supported springsc c c by means of interposed transverse by transverse slats interposedbetween the susslats D D D, which are placed under each rowpending-wires and springs. Fig. IIIis an inof springs and secured tothem and to the verted View of the form of spring bed-bottom wires I bystaples in the ordinary manner. shown at Fig. I. Fig. IV is a section ofthe Theslats may, however, be connected by links,

20 edge ofa coiled-wire woven mattress,enlarged,. and two-part wires Ibe employed to connect with the transverse sustaining-rod therein andthem with the transverse wires (1 (Z. The a suspending-wirehooked overthe rod. Fig. springs a. a a may also be connected together V is aperspective representation of one of the byany well-known means, andwires I,running sustaining-rods and the end suspending-wires from eachrod (l,made to connect therewith by 25 in position thereon and removedfrom the forming the ends of the wires into hooks m,

other parts of the bed-bottom. Fig. VI repsuitable to unite the parts.resentsthe hook of one of the suspending-wires It is proper to statethat my devices can be, in position on the transverse sustaining-rod.attached toawoven-wire-mattress frame,where This invention relates to animprovement-in the woven wire has lost half of its original tenwhat areknown as re-enforced spring'bedsion, and produce a first classbed-bottom, inbottoms+that is, bed-bottoms which have asmuchas supportedor re-enforced mattresses their wire mattresses supported withcoiledrequire less than half of the tensile strain that wire springsandthe purpose'is to attain the others do. required yielding conditions forthe under Having thus described my invention, whatI 35 spring-supportsfrom the spring of a portion claim, and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the mattress of coiled wire. It has been the of the UnitedStates, is- 0 custom heretofore to support such mattresses In supportedwoven-wire-mattress spring by springs on cross-slats which are rigidlysebed-bottoms, the sustaining-rods d d, respectcured to the side rails,and to support them ively put edgewise through the coiled woven- 0 bysprings which are sustained by connectingwire mattress, parallel to andsome little dislinks attached to the same end rails to which tance fromthe end rails, B, so they will have a the mattress is secured. Theobjection to the movement to and from each other,as the weight means forsupporting these vertical coilon the mattress may be increased ordiminsprings, as in the art shown, is the rigidity of ished, andcombined with suspending-wires I,

5 the bottom support, which really has no elasthe mattressframeA B, andcoil-springs supticity except that in the metal itself, or what portedbythe wires I and placed under the little there may be in the middle ofstiff transmattress O, substantially as specified, and for verse slats.I overcome this objection by two the purpose set forth. sustaihingwires,each being put edgewise 50 through the coiled woven-wire mattress farCHARLES OARLETON.

enough from the 'end rails to utilize a portion of the spring of thesaid mattress for the sus- Witnesses:

pending-wires connecting said sustaining- J OHN BURNS, wires. J. H.FIELD.

